Intellects

This section is dedicated to the greatest human intellects. There are links below each name to articles about these people and their influence on human society as well as personal writings of theirs and some of my thoughts as well. While many have had varying degrees of belief in the supernatural, there is no denying the effect that these men have had on my life personally and on our current condition and understanding of our place in the cosmos as a whole and our relationships with each other... (First, the intellects featured in the background of this blog... clockwise, starting from 12:00)

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton - Wikipedia

The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy - Isaac Newton 1687

The Newton Project - Various Writings by Isaac Newton

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein - Wikipedia

Relativity: The Special and General Theory - Albert Einstein 1916

The World As I See It - Albert Einstein 1934

Einstein: Science and Religion

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Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia

The Galileo Affair - Wikipedia

The Starry Messenger - Galileo Galilei 1610

Third Letter on Sunspots - Galileo Galilei 1613

Letter To the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany- Galileo Galilei 1615

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems - Galileo Galilei 1632

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Wikipedia

Holy Wars - Neil deGrasse Tyson 1999

The Perimeter of Ignorance - Neil deGrasse Tyson 2005

The Cosmic Perspective - Neil deGrasse Tyson 2007

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Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins - Wikipedia

Viruses of the Mind - Richard Dawkins 1991

Good and Bad Reasons For Believing - Richard Dawkins 1995

Is Science a Religion? - Richard Dawkins 1997

Imagine No Religion - Richard Dawkins 2006

Why There Almost Certainly Is No God - Richard Dawkins 2006

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Sam Harris

Sam Harris - Wikipedia

10 Myths and 10 Truths About Atheism - Sam Harris 2006

Science Must Destroy Religion - Sam Harris 2006

God's Dupes - Sam Harris 2007

The Moral Landscape: Thinking About Human Values In Universal Terms - Sam Harris 2010

Essays By Sam Harris

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Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan - Wikipedia

The Burden of Skepticism - Carl Sagan 1987

Why We Need To Understand Science - Carl Sagan 1990

Wonder and Skepticism - Carl Sagan 1995

Does Truth Matter? Science, Pseudoscience and Civilization - Carl Sagan 1996

Science's Vast Cosmic Perspective Eludes Religion - Carl Sagan 2007 (posthumous)

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Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler - Wikipedia

Mysterium Cosmographicum (summary) - Johannes Kepler 1597

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Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine - Wikipedia

Common Sense - Thomas Paine 1776

The Age of Reason: Part 1 - Thomas Paine 1794

The Age of Reason: Part 2 - Thomas Paine 1807

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Daniel Dennett

Daniel Dennett - Wikipedia

The Bright Stuff - Daniel Dennett 2003

Show Me the Science - Daniel Dennett 2005

Thank Goodness! - Daniel Dennett 2006

Atheism & Evolution - Daniel Dennett 2007

Preachers Who Are Not Believers - Daniel Dennett 2010

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

Benjamin Franklin On Religion: 1771, 1784, 1788

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

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Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking - Wikipedia

The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time - Stephen Hawking 1973

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus - Wikipedia

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (dedication) - Nicolaus Copernicus 1543

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

Emancipation Proclamation - Abraham Lincoln 1862

The Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln 1863

The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

Selected Speeches By Abraham Lincoln

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens - Wikipedia

Mommie Dearest - Christopher Hitchens 2003

Papal Bull: Joseph Ratzinger's Latest Offense - Christopher Hitchens 2006

Cartoon Debate - Christopher Hitchens 2006

Faith-Based Fraud - Christopher Hitchens 2007

The Pope is Not Above the Law - Christopher Hitchens 2010

A Nation of Racist Dwarfs - Christopher Hitchens 2010

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Claudius Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy - Wikipedia

The Almagest - Claudius Ptolemy 150

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Other intellects:

George Washington

George Washington - Wikipedia

Letter To Hebrew Congregation at Newport - George Washington 1790

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson - Wikipedia

The Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson 1776

Notes on the State of Virginia (excerpt) - Thomas Jefferson 1781

Letter to James Madison (excerpt) - Thomas Jefferson 1785

The Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom - Thomas Jefferson 1786

Letter to Edward Carrington - Thomas Jefferson 1787

Exchange With he Danbury Baptists - Thomas Jefferson 1801-1802

Letter to Samuel Miller - Thomas Jefferson 1808

Letter to N.G. Dufeif - Thomas Jefferson 1814

The Jefferson Bible - Thomas Jefferson 1820

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James Madison

James Madison - Wikipedia

Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments - James Madison 1785

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Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin - Wikipedia

On The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin 1859

The Descent of Man - Charles Darwin 1871

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals - Charles Darwin 1872

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain - Wikipedia

Letter, San Francisco/Alta California - Mark Twain 1868

To the Person Sitting in Darkness - Mark Twain 1901

The War Prayer - Mark Twain 1904

Letters From the Earth - Mark Twain 1909

The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain 1910

Little Bessie - Mark Twain 1972 (posthumous)

Mark Twain Writings

Mark Twain - The Official Website

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Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace - Wikipedia

Mecanique Celeste - Pierre-Simon Laplace 1799-1825

Pierre-Simon Laplace on Probability and Statistics

Laplace's Demon - Wikipedia

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